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Originally Posted by partywme
Pros will occasionally train with bats 1/2 the size in width to their normal bats they use in games. It exaggerates the need to watch the ball onto the bat. They absolutely smash the leather off the ball still with these much smaller bats.
So in answer to your question it's not close, the pros win.
It would be closer if you was to put say the top players in world with baseball bats vs the best non pro (no county) cricket players with cricket bats.
I mean, even I had a shaved off bat for practice (basically the bat is ever so slightly wider than the handle/splice) and was still able to play something resembling shots vs most bowling I faced. Pros destroy it
In the second scenario I still take the county players. Unless all the batsman are Inzamam Ul-Haq types. Apparently Matthew Hayden could bowl at 130+ and I know a few other Australian batsman can as well, I am sure the same applies at county level where up until 16 or 17 most kids did do both disciplines of the game.